The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-12
JAY GOULD'S SISTER.
She Teaches School and His Old Sweetheart
Keeps a Boarding-H ouse.

She Teaches School and His Old Sweetheart
Keeps a Boarding-H ouse.
Philadelphia Correspondence Chicago Tribune
The mild Hooking, rather petite, but digniied
woman just passing must have been quite pref
ty her youth though she never probably
could have been called handsome. There is
certain something. however about her-a sweet
ness In her looks and manner-that Is more
charming in a woman of her years than any
mains of physical beauty would be. She is very
simply attred in black, and black bonnet
Who is she2
She is Jay Goud's sister. She has come
from her home in Camden-a quiet little town
across the river-to do some shopping probably.
One often meets her in the busy streets, but
her indemnity is known TO few, she escapes the
ogiing and comment that she would otherwise
be subjected TO- She is not rich, by any means.
Indeed, aside from a moderate allowance that
the specializing Croesus makes her she derives
her living from school for girls that her daueh
ters conduct. The school, it is said, is excel
lent one, and. Gould-like. It gets the cream of
the business in South Jersey.
The school-house erected at Jay Goulds
expense. Jay knew that his sister had not
ried we'll from q financial point of view and that
her daughters were struggling for a living,
but he was too busy piling up his millions to
give the matter much personal attention. But
his wife had her eye on the girls, and she was
pleased with their earnestness that she
brought the matter to the attention of her hus-
band and insisted on his building the girls
school. Gould did not object, and, now that his
attention was directed TO the matter, he gave
orders that expense should be spared in max
ing the building model in every respect.
He himself takes much pride in il and the
success of the nieces any one when he per-
mits himself the luxury of five minutes thought
on a subject so far removed from stocks and
bonds. His sister and the girls spending
part of the summer up at Plattsburg, n. Y,
with Jay Gould's first love, who keeps board
ing-house up there. She is elderly and gray
haired. and is not strikingly handsome, but in
her day she blit hesome and pretty. She
the daughter of country storekeeper. Jay
Gould, after leaving his fathers farm, went to
work in the store and promptly fell in love with
the rosy checked maiden But the old man had
much higher views of his daughters future than
a marriage with young man in his own shop
would realize. He not only gave young Gould
to understand that marriage was out of the
question but dispensed with his services we'll.
Jay took his rejection philosophically enough
and gave himself up to the work of making a
fortune. While he growing richer and
richer and piling million on million his old love
vainly trying TO battle with misfortune
Her father, who had plumed himself SO proudly
on the ownership of his general store" failed;
the husband whom she took after Jay Gould had
gone away brought little to her; and at the
END she endeavors to exc out An income by open
ing her house to summer boarders She has a
wondorous amount of philosophy in her make up
and very little envy. She is bright, good-nat-
ured and contenred with what fortune has
brought-or ought one to say left-her Some
of Jay Gould's relatives spend few weeks at
her farm house every year, but Jay himself new
er goes there.